Pertanyaan: 780. Apakah Yesus Mendapatkan Pengalaman?
Dalam menjadi manusia, Kristus dengan sukarela tunduk pada beberapa keterbatasan manusia. Dia dibuat sama seperti saudara-saudaranya dalam segala hal, namun tanpa dosa. Lukas dengan tegas menyatakan (Lukas 2:52) bahwa Dia bertambah dalam hikmat. Dia mengambil rupa manusia dan dengan itu mengambil kondisi kehidupan manusia, di antaranya adalah kebutuhan untuk dididik seperti anak-anak lainnya. Kita dapat membayangkan bahwa jika dalam masa kecil-Nya Dia sadar akan keilahian-Nya, kehidupan manusia pasti sangat aneh baginya. Hanya pengalaman yang dapat meneranginya dan itulah yang khusus mempersiapkan-Nya menjadi Imam Besar yang dapat merasakan simpati terhadap kelemahan kita. Godaan-Nya di padang gurun adalah godaan manusia. Dalam melewati ujian dengan tubuh manusia, Dia belajar tentang penderitaan yang ditimbulkan oleh godaan dan akibatnya Dia memperoleh "kekuatan untuk menolong mereka yang digoda" melalui pengalaman tersebut.
Question: 780. Did Jesus Gain by Experience?
In becoming man Christ voluntarily subjected himself to certain human limitations. He was made in all things like unto his brethren and yet without sin. Luke explicitly states (Luk. 2:52) that he increased in wisdom. He took upon himself the human form and with it the conditions of its life, among which would be the need of being educated like other boys. We can imagine that if in his boyhood he was conscious of his divinity the human life must have been very strange to him. Experience alone could enlighten him and it is that fact which specially fitted him to be a High Priest who could sympathize with our infirmities. His temptation in the wilderness was a human temptation. In passing through the ordeal with a human body he learned the misery of being tempted and consequently he "gained by experience" the power to succor those who are tempted.
